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According to the 2012 census, Suriname had a population of 541,638 inhabitants.
<ref name="statistics-suriname1"/> The Surinamese populace is characterized by its high level of diversity, wherein no particular demographic group constitutes a majority. This is a legacy of centuries of Dutch rule, which entailed successive periods of forced, contracted, or voluntary migration by various nationalities and ethnic groups from around the world. The largest ethnic group are the [[Indo-Surinamese|East Indians]], who form 27 percent of the population. They are descendants of 19th-century contract workers from [[India]], hailing mostly from the modern Indian states of [[Bihar]] and Eastern [[Uttar Pradesh]] along the [[Nepal]]i border. Surinamese [[Maroon (people)|Maroons]], whose ancestors are mostly runaway slaves that fled to the interior, comprise the next largest group at 21.7 percent; they are divided into five main groups: [[Ndyuka people|Ndyuka]] (Aucans), [[Kwinti]], [[Matawai people|Matawai]], [[Saramaka|Saramaccans]] and [[Paramaccan]]s. Surinamese [[Creole peoples|Creoles]], mixed people descending from African slaves and mostly Dutch Europeans, form 15.7 percent of the population. [[Javanese Surinamese|Javanese]] make up 14 percent of the population, and like the East Indians, descend largely from workers contracted from the island of [[Java]] in the former [[Dutch East Indies]] (modern [[Indonesia]]).
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A small but influential number of [[White Surinamese|Europeans]] remain in the country, comprising about 1 percent of the population. They are descended mostly from [[Dutch people|Dutch]] 19th-century immigrant farmers, known as "[[Dutch Surinamese|Boeroes]]" (derived from ''boer'', the [[Dutch language|Dutch]] word for "farmer"), and to a lesser degree other European groups, such as [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] from [[Madeira]]. Most Boeroes [[White flight|left after independence in 1975]].
Various [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|indigenous peoples]] make up 3.7 percent of the population, with the main groups being the [[Akurio people|Akurio]], [[Arawak]], [[Kalina people|Kalina]] (Caribs), [[Tiriyó people|Tiriyó]] and [[Wayana people|Wayana]]. They live mainly in the districts of [[Paramaribo]], [[Wanica District|Wanica]], [[Para District|Para]], [[Marowijne District|Marowijne]] and [[Sipaliwini District|Sipaliwini]].
<ref name="joshuaproject.net">{{cite web|author=Joshua Project |url=http://www.joshuaproject.net/peopctry.php |title=Joshuaproject.net |publisher=Joshuaproject.net |accessdate=28 March 2010}}</ref> The vast majority of Suriname's inhabitants (about 90 percent) live in [[Paramaribo]] or on the coast.
The choice of becoming Surinamese or Dutch citizens in the years leading up to Suriname's independence in 1975 led to a mass migration to the Netherlands. This migration continued in the period immediately after independence and during military rule in the 1980s and for largely economic reasons extended throughout the 1990s. The [[Surinamese people in the Netherlands|Surinamese community]] in the [[Netherlands]] numbered 350,300 {{As of|2013|lc=y}}; this is compared to approximately 566,000
<ref name=cia /> Surinamese in Suriname itself. ===Religion===
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